I'm making some for myself and I have fleece for the backing, OCV for the inner and a combination of zorb and prefold cotton for soakers...but I was thinking for those first couple days, would it be good it they had a PUL layer...what do you think?

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Since I have wool on hand I am making a 2 part pad. The bottom part will be lanolized wool and the top will be absorbent cotton. Then I only change the top cloth and change the bottom as needed. Although I am not needing pp cloth I do need mamma cloth. When using sposies I need to double up at night so I figured I would need heavy duty cloth pads.

I would make them without PUL - but have a longish oval of PUL to lay under the pad if I found that waterproofing was needed. If you make them with a fleece back, then you could also have a fleece extra bit if required.